PERSI To Be Marketed by Brightsolid

Posted by: Jan Meisels Allen

PERSI, the PERiodical Source Index, is a creation of the
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center(ACPL) in Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA) but is available on line to use by
millions.It's an index for genealogy
publications.The ACPL Genealogy Center
is a unique and very well respected genealogical center [ http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx
].PERsi has had aninteresting life--first it was in hard books,
then Ancestry.com paid the ACPL to market it to the Ancestry customers. Then
ACPL contracted with HeritageQuest to market it and now the Library has
contracted with Brightsolid, an online publishing firm in the United Kingdom. (
the parent of FindMyPast). Brightsolid hopes to do something no previous firm
has been able to do: Link the index to the full text of the article.Because of copyright laws, providing the
article would require getting permission from every publisher, difficult at
best.